Tom Blickman

Researcher, TNI Drugs and Democracy Programme

Tom Blickman (1957) is a Senior Project Officer at the Transnational Institute (TNI), based in Amsterdam. Since 1997, he has been working for TNI's Drugs & Democracy Programme, specializing in international drug control policy and the UN conventions, drug markets, alternative development, money laundering and organised crime. Tom is a regular speaker at international policy conferences and advises on developments in the drugs field. He is co-editor of the TNI Drug Policy Briefing series.

• Mexican trafficking in the global context, presentation at: The Mexican connection: Drug trafficking, the state and society in contemporary Mexico, XV Día de Mexicanistas, Mexican Studies Centre, Faculty of Humanities, University of Groningen, November 19-20, 2009

• Synthetic Drug Trafficking in Amsterdam, (editor and co-author), in: Synthetic Drugs Trafficking in Three European Cities: Major Trends and the Involvement of Organised Crime, Turin: Gruppo Abele/TNI/IECAH, March 2003

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UN Drug Control

In 2011 the 1961 UN Single Convention on drugs will be in place for 50 years. In 2012 the international drug control system will exist 100 years since the International Opium Convention was signed in 1912 in The Hague. Does it still serve its purpose or is a reform of the UN Drug Conventions needed? This site provides critical background.